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In this Columbia Journalism Review article, the book's features are reviewed: It contains not just grammar and punctuation and usage, but pointers on how readers scan and view web pages, tips on how to suss out your audience and more things relevant to content creation beyond writing. Here's one example of how this guide differs, from the CJR review:

Without always saying so, Yahoo is concerned about the tendency of editors to transfer print standards to the Web. For example, newspaper journalists like to use italics to convey everything from emphasis to irony. But as the guide points out, those italics don’t show up in online RSS feeds or search-engine results, so the reader may get a completely different impression from what the author intended.

What's guiding your style in the digital age? If you have another guide to recommend, add it in the comments.

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